ix, 273 pages ; 24 cm

Meat Market elevates the debate over animal agriculture. Erik Marcus exposes and clears away the exaggerated claims and counterclaims put forth by the meat industry and its opponents. In the process, Marcus presents a thorough examination of animal agricultures cruelties and its far-reaching social costs. Marcus then considers the discouraging progress made by the animal protection movement. He evaluates where the movement has gone wrong, and how its shortcomings could best be remedied

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-261) and index

I. Animal agriculture -- 1. The economics of animal agriculture -- 2. Farmed animal lives -- 3. Possibilities for reform in animal agriculture -- II. Dismantlement -- 4. The movement's scorecard -- 5. The three existing movements for animal protection -- 6. Creating a dismantlement movement -- 7. Organizing for dismantlement -- 8. The first steps to dismantlement -- 9. The militancy question -- 10. Personal action -- Epilogue : the unluckiest ones -- Supplementary material -- Introduction to the supplementary material -- Activist essays -- Leafleting for vegan outreach -- The FaunaVision approach -- Starting a local vegetarian society -- Promoting vegetarian diets as a nutrition expert -- The activist chef -- Becoming a medical doctor -- Making food-service operations vegan-friendly -- Working for school lunch reform -- Appendices -- A. The health argument -- B. The environmental argument -- C. The environmental costs of cattle ranching -- D. The consequences of fishing -- E. The ethics of hunting -- F. Why red meat can't compete -- G. Animal testing --H. Back to the jungle, meatpacking in America -- I. Recommended reading

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